Mr. Creeps: Scary Stories & Creepypastas

I Was Sent to a Small Outpost on the Bottom of the Ocean. Something Is Watching Me.

September 11, 2026

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5 min read

Officer Mason volunteered for a post at the Remina listening outpost, a facility built at the bottom of an ocean trench specifically to be remote. He was running from something in his past—prison, violence, a life he wanted to leave behind—and the solitude seemed like an easy payday. For two months, the only company was an AI that played chess. Then, on day seventeen, the readings went wrong.

A spike in energy from a subterranean fissure suggested movement toward a substation. But when Mason checked, the AI told him the sensors had malfunctioned. The readings were gone. He suited up in a mech to inspect the relays, and that was when the ocean floor began to shake. He heard something alive, something massive, shrieking in the darkness. His headlamps picked up nothing. When he reached the emergency hatch, he found the outpost's exterior torn apart by enormous claw marks. The cameras showed nothing. The damage was real, but invisible.

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What you'll learn

1 (01:10) **Volunteering for the Deep** - Officer Mason explains why he volunteered for the lonely mission at Remina listening outpost, a remote station at the bottom of the ocean.
2 (02:53) **First Anomaly** - The computer wakes Mason with a reading of a massive energy spike in the trench, a pattern that should not exist.
3 (04:57) **Forbidden Ocean Walk** - Mason is authorized to take a mech suit to check the relays, revealing the strict control command has over his every move.
4 (09:59) **Invisible Attack** - Mason witnesses massive claw marks on the outpost and feels the structure being attacked by an unseen force.
5 (12:53) **A Desperate Message** - Mason sends an old-fashioned radio beacon to the nearest substation, 47 Carcosa, before the AI goes completely silent.
6 (15:31) **Encrypted Warning from Lieutenant Commander Hackley** - Mason finds an encrypted message from substation 47, revealing a similar crisis.
7 (18:50) **Going Rogue** - Mason decides to disobey the AI and travel to substation 47 himself, shutting off all comms to avoid detection.

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Show Notes

It's a lonely job. Written by: Kyle Harrison